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Manchester United are confident Barcelona will lower their €85m (£73m) asking price for Frenkie de Jong because of the Catalan club’s difficult financial position and the lack of other suitors for the midfielder. After Barcelona last week rejected an initial United offer of €60m (£51.3m) plus a potential €10m in add-ons, the club may make […]
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Researchers from Skoltech and Sechenov University have 3D-printed and investigated the properties of samples of a porous iron-silicon alloy that the team considers promising for making implants for bone regeneration. The samples exhibited low toxicity, sturdiness, biodegradability, and signs they would accommodate bone growth. The study is published in Biomedical Materials. To heal bad fractures, […]
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France’s anti-trust watchdog body said on Thursday that it had approved commitments made by Facebook owner Meta Platforms (META.O) regarding the French online advertising sector. Meta has committed to giving access over a five-year period to advertising inventories and campaign data to so-called advertising technology companies on transparent, objective and predictable conditions, the French regulator […]
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Even if Apple’s M2 series of SoCs don’t feature significantly-improved performance compared to the M1s, they’ll probably still be some of the most efficient chipsets found in today’s laptops – beating most if not all of their x86-based competitors in that department. Last week, Apple unveiled their new M2 SoC, which will start shipping in […]
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The furry-faced poster-animal of the climate crisis is still surviving smartly, even in a habitat without as much sea ice, according to a new survey. Along Greenland’s southeast coast, the usual 100-days of frozen sea water is being replaced by a floating landscape of ice coming off the fronts of glaciers, providing the bears with […]
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Royal Ascot’s first £1m race on Wednesday attracted just five runners but the second – Saturday’s Platinum Jubilee Stakes – has drawn a record field of 27, headed by the top-notch Australian sprinter, Home Affairs. Home Affairs is a stable companion of Nature Strip, Tuesday’s impressive King’s Stand Stakes winner, and beat him by a […]
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Like wine, beer can have health benefits when consumed in moderation. Non-alcoholic beers have become wildly popular recently, but are these drinks also healthful? In a pilot study, researchers in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry report that compared to their pre-trial microbiome, men who drank either one alcoholic or non-alcoholic lager daily had […]
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Revlon Inc (REV.N) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late on Wednesday as the debt-laden cosmetics company struggled to take on rising competition from celebrity-backed startups in recent years. Revlon, which was founded in 1932 as a nail paint maker, is controlled by billionaire Ron Perelman’s MacAndrews & Forbes and counts celebrities Gal Gadot and […]
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Cloudflare recently detected and mitigated what it is calling the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record. The content delivery network and DDoS mitigation company said the attack, which peaked at 26 million requests per second, mostly came from cloud service providers rather than residential ISPs. This suggests the attacker was using hijacked virtual machines to […]
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An Italian startup this month announced the successful launch of a CO2 battery that uses carbon dioxide to store renewable energy at utility-scale on the grid—a technology that is now ready to be deployed worldwide. Energy Dome began its operations in February 2020 and has progressed from a concept to full testing of a multi-megawatt […]
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